Chapter 108: The Woman Who Was Loved by the Emperors of Two Countries in Turn
General Feng's complaints about Jun Chenyi could be heard from the front yard all the way to the kitchen.
There was no choice but Deng Youning and Jun Wenying had to come over to see what was going on.
"Aren't they just two jars?"
"I will send someone to buy you eighteen of them right now, in various styles for you to use in rotation!"
Jun Chenyi yelled in confusion.
"Oh, I can't explain it to you clearly."
"It's not the jar that's important, it's what's inside the jar!"
General Feng was now anxious and angry, and was at a loss as to what to do as he explained to Jun Chenyi.
"thing?"
"You mean the jar of pickles that's gone rotten?"
Jun Chenyi looked hesitant and puzzled, feeling even more puzzled by this.
When Deng Youning heard this, she hurried forward to speak for Jun Chenyi:
"Please don't blame me, senior. This morning, when we were cleaning up the yard for you, we saw the jar of spoiled vegetables and threw it away without permission."
"My cousin said that the Han family sends people to deliver gifts every month, so you don't have to live so frugally..."
Before Deng Youning finished speaking, General Feng asked anxiously, "Where did you throw the jar?"
Seeing that he was determined to find the jar, Deng Youning, Jun Chenyi and the others were too lazy to bother with him.
Simply, all the garbage that Jun Chenyi threw away was placed beside the stream outside the yard, waiting for the servants of the Ninth Prince's Mansion to come and pick it up.
When General Feng learned about this, he ran over quickly and found the jar.
Seeing him holding the jar as if he had found a treasure, Deng Youning thought, maybe this jar was left by someone important to him?
Jun Wenying, who couldn't figure out the reason, asked stupidly, "Senior, what's so special about this jar?"
General Feng smiled mysteriously, opened the jar and poured out all the pickled vegetables.
The smell was sour and smelly and went straight to my head.
The smoke makes my throat burn.
Deng Youning felt that this thing could be used to refine a deadly poison.
The three of them pinched their noses and did not move forward.
General Feng was searching inside with great interest.
Soon, he took out a small package wrapped in oil paper.
When she opened the bag, she found a portrait of a young woman and a necklace she was wearing.
The necklace looks extremely luxurious and can only be worn by people of noble status.
Deng Youning endured the stench and walked up curiously.
"Senior, this isn't the girl I once had a crush on, is it?"
She asked curiously, always waiting to hear more.
"Don't talk nonsense! This is my old master's lover."
"Fifty years ago, she almost became the queen of our Nanxin!"
"But, at that time, the late emperor had not yet ascended the throne. He was weak and vulnerable to bullying. He couldn't even decide who to marry."
"After that, I never saw this girl again."
General Feng briefly described his relationship with the person in the painting, his eyes filled with regret and sorrow for that year.
Now, his master, Emperor Nanxin, is no longer with us, so he subconsciously thought that the girl should have died of old age as well.
Of the three people who were originally together, now he is the only one left, living a miserable life alone in this foreign country.
Even he himself didn't know whether it was right or wrong for him to be rescued by the Han family and not sacrifice his life for his country?
"This portrait and this necklace were entrusted to me by my former master."
"Unfortunately, since the war thirty-five years ago, I have been a dead man in the eyes of the world, and I have never had the chance to return these things to their original owner."
Deng Youning looked at the portrait carefully.
The girl looks like she is no more than a teenager, and is indeed a rare beauty.
But why did she feel that this look was becoming more and more familiar?
Especially the mole on the eyebrow!
Even after fifty or sixty years, the bone structure will not change and the moles on the face will hardly fall off naturally.
"You haven't seen it, but I have!"
"Isn't this our Queen Mother?!"
Deng Youning made a shocking statement.
Her tone was lazy and casual, as if she was talking about something very ordinary.
Upon hearing this, Jun Chenyi and Jun Wenying hurried forward without caring whether it smelled or not.
The brother and sister stood on the left and right, sticking to General Feng's hand, wishing they could fall into the painting and see it.
The two of them stared at the painting for a full quarter of an hour.
You know what, the woman in this painting really looks like the empress dowager!
"My grandmother told me that the Queen Mother lived in Nanxin for a few years when she was young and developed a deep friendship with my grandmother who was stationed at the border."
"Later, through the Han family, she met the former emperor of Dongji, fell in love with him, and entered the palace as a concubine."
During the Emperor's birthday celebration, on the eve of the visit Deng Youning went with her grandmother to meet the Empress Dowager, Han Qiongyue specifically told her these things in order to give her a basic understanding of the Empress Dowager.
When she was young, the empress dowager was just like Han Qiongyue, both of whom were brave women who could ride on horseback.
"Time never defeats beauty. If you had seen the Queen Mother, you would have recognized her."
Based on the timeline, Deng Youning was basically certain that the woman in the painting was undoubtedly the Queen Mother.
She was originally from Dongji and lived in the southeastern border when she was young, where she met Han Qiongyue and, by chance, met Emperor Nanqin and General Feng who came to Liangcheng on the border.
Later, her love with Emperor Nanxin was blocked. She went to her sisters to cry and she met Emperor Dongji again.
This woman is really capable to be loved by two emperors!
"Senior, please give these things to me. I will return them to the Queen Mother after returning to the capital."
Deng Youning offered to help.
General Feng refused.
It is true that this thing belongs to the Queen Mother Dongji, but it is also something that his former master has been longing for.
He still wanted to find an opportunity to bring these things to his old master.
As for now, I'll just stay with him and think of him.
None of the three had expected that the Queen Mother and the late Emperor Nanxin had such an emotional entanglement.
During the few days in the courtyard, several people pestered General Feng to tell them some stories of the older generation, which also helped to pass the time.
When he had nothing to do, Jun Chenyi would accompany him to the creek to fish. When they had fun, they could go home and eat the delicious food made by Jun Wenying, as well as the medicinal bath prepared by Deng Youning for him every night. He had to soak in it for seven days before proceeding to the next step of detoxification.
However, until the poison was removed seven days later, General Feng did not mention whether he would pass on his skills to Li Tianzhuo.
Deng Youning didn't want to force anyone.
In the past few days, she would use her Qinggong skills to go down the mountain every day to accompany Li Tianzhuo.
Each time they see each other, she doesn't want to waste her remaining time accompanying this old man.
"Cousin, Ying'er, let's say goodbye and go down the mountain early tomorrow morning."
There was no hope in Deng Youning's eyes.
It’s too difficult to wait for General Feng to give in.
Li Qinghuan also didn't find anyone else willing to teach him the skills.
"The burns from that day...?"
Although Jun Chenyi knew that it was useless, he was unwilling to give up until the last moment.
“Maybe this is our fate!”
"My cousin, he only has five or six days left. I just want to be with him every moment and spend the last moments with him."
"I don't want to waste any more time on these meaningless things."
In the past few days, Deng Youning has become visibly more haggard.
My eye sockets are red and swollen almost every day, and even my voice is hoarse.
Although Jun Chenyi did not go down the mountain, he heard from Deng Yan'an and the attendants of the palace that Deng Youning would cry every day when she came to see Li Tianzhuo.
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